Architect Irving J. Gill (1870 - 1936) is widely considered the first and preeminent architect of the "Modernist" era. In her groundbreaking work, Five California Architects, Esther McCoy asserts that, along with Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, and R.M. Schindler, Gill is one of California's most important architects. As one of the most influential architects of the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, Gill is said to have been so far in advance of his time that there was yet no discussion of "Modernism" ...
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Architect Irving J. Gill (1870 - 1936) is widely considered the first and preeminent architect of the "Modernist" era. In her groundbreaking work, Five California Architects, Esther McCoy asserts that, along with Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, and R.M. Schindler, Gill is one of California's most important architects. As one of the most influential architects of the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, Gill is said to have been so far in advance of his time that there was yet no discussion of "Modernism"--it simply had not emerged as a movement or a consciousness. Gill followed no one, choosing instead to lead a paradigm shift from crafts construction to machinic building, particularly in light of the development and evolution of concrete as a material of choice. This book is a must-own for any serious fan of Gill, California architecture, modernism, and turn-of-the-century development in building. Marvin Rand has been published in numerous books and magazines throughout the world and has been showcased in major exhibitions. He is the author of Green & Greene ( Gibbs Smith, 2005). He lives in Marina del Rey, California.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. Folio-over 12-15" tall. Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in dark gray cloth lettered in gold, in publisher's non price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. 239 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout with color, and some black and white, photographs by Marvin Rand. Text by Esther McCoy, with excerpts from Gill's own writing as published in The Craftsman (1916). First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, clean, and unmarked copy, like new. As new in an as new dust-jacket. A large book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book Unpaginated, portfolio of drawings and renderings in color by Gill, remembering Esther McCoy by Rand, Irving Gill by Esther McCoy from Five California Architects, chronology of Gill's projects, background by Mary Ann Danin, The New Architecture of the West by Gill from Craftsman Magazine May 1916. Remainder of book is color and b/w photos of Gill's work by Rand, illustrated endpapers; 4to, green boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
